Nicholas Spice on Jelinek

By E.J. Van Lanen | June 3rd, 2008 | Articles | 0 Comment

Nicholas Spice reviews Elfride Jelinek’s Greed in the LRB: In Greed, Jelinek finds a way to deal with depth (with the abyss inside the human) without either reverting to the analgesic of realism or exhausting the reader with flood-lit ugliness. For all its derangement, Greed is not ugly. Indeed, once one has got ...